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Giving
There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
我的付出带来了巨大的快乐。这是激动人心的。这是令人振奋的。成为分享的一部分很重要。这是我的爱。这是我的快乐。
Even after all this time, The sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with A love like that. It lights the whole sky.
即使过了这么久，太阳也从未对大地说：“你欠我的。”看看这样的爱会带来什么——它照亮了整个天空。
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
给予使我们从自己需求的熟悉领域中解放出来，打开我们的心灵，进入被他人需求占据的无法解释的世界。
You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like.
你可以品尝不同年份的葡萄酒，我们用音乐来做这件事，让他们体验一下过去的旅程。
I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.
我已经说过一千个光点，说过所有像星星一样散布在全国各地的社区组织，都在行善。
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
我们期待我们的晚餐不是来自屠夫、酿酒师或面包师的仁慈，而是来自他们对自己利益的关心。
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
生活只向征服者屈服。永远不要接受让步能得到的东西。你将靠偷来的东西生活，你的肌肉会萎缩。
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
如果不是一颗宝石，甚至一朵花，我们应该把爱的思想作为礼物扔进朋友的心里，那将是天使的给予。
The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel.
加拉太人因听信错误的教义而受到严厉的谴责，如果他传了另一个福音，甚至被召来宣布一个使徒是被诅咒的。
I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!
我记得有一次，我送给父亲一些图画和文字，对他说，‘如果你能把这些给出版商，那就太好了。“那时我大约五岁!”
I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at receiving.
我想不出有什么比能够给人们提供他们喜欢的东西更好的感情了。我喜欢给予，但我对接受感到尴尬。
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
今天的很多教育都非常低效。我们常常在应该教年轻人自己种花的时候，却给他们插花。
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To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.
向前看而不是回头， 往外看而不是往里看，还有 伸出援助之手。
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
感受感激而不表达就像包装礼物却不送一样。
I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.
我有一个理论，倦怠与怨恨有关。当你知道你所放弃的是什么让你愤怒时，你就战胜了它。
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
所有艺术的本质都是在给予快乐中获得快乐。
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
利己主义不过是我们这个动物的生存。人类只有从自我投降开始。
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
给予的方式比礼物更有价值。